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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
― A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
― Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
― Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
“Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where it was, is night; and history is an impertinence and an injury, if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.”
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own.”
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Ben’s 2025 Year in Books
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