The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?
Click here to read Thoreau's Walden, from which many of his quotes are taken.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
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