I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving. β¨ Henry David Thoreau (2012). The Portable Thoreau, p.417, Penguin
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- Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder. β¨ Henry David Thoreau (2013). The Essential Thoreau, p.466, Simon and Schuster
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