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• The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Moon, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.289, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though it were only the finest particles,--why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Reading, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• I'll walk where my own nature would be leading:
  It vexes me to choose another guide:
  Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
  Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.

  Emily Bronte

  Country, Blow, Wind

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.211, The Floating Press

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• To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

  Honore de Balzac

  Live Life, Passion, Eye

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• One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Spring, Men, Thinking

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• All think what other people think;
  All know the man their neighbor knows.
  Lord, what would they say
  Did their Catullus walk that way?

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Thinking, Gossip

  "The Scholars" l. 9 (1919)

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• I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the
  walk of the morning

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Morning, Night, White

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.124, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philosophy, Exercise, West Indies

  Benjamin Franklin (1806). “The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes”, p.109

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• I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humility, Humble, Born

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• Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Artist, Annoyed

  "The Figure a Poem Makes". Essay by Robert Frost, 1939.

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• Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Artist, People, Citizens

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• Trails need to be wider so people can walk while holding hands.

  Dave Barry

  God, Hands, People

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• At certain times each year, we journalists do almost nothing except apply for the Pulitzers and several dozen other major prizes. During these times you could walk right into most newsrooms and commit a multiple axe murder naked, and it wouldn't get reported in the paper because the reporters and editors would all be too busy filling out prize applications.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Editors, Naked

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• The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

  Victor Hugo

  Fall, People, Stones

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• If you would grow great and stately,
  You must try to walk sedately.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Children, Trying, Grows

  1885 A Child's Garden of Verses, no.27,'Good and Bad Children', stanza1.

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• It's like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don't understand how you can live there. It's really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there's nothing moving. I've lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren't as boring as Los Angeles.

  Truman Capote

  Moving, Fishing, Long

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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• The figures of the past go cloaked.
  They walk in mist and rain and snow
  And go, go slowly, but they go.

  Wallace Stevens

  Rain, Past, Snow

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.302, Vintage

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• Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

  George Washington

  Sleep, Speak, Should

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.412

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• Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

  Sophia Loren

  Thinking, Here I Am, Alive

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• Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

  Sophia Loren

  Exercise, Streets, Ifs

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• Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Coffee, Tired

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• I usually never walk by a microphone.

  Ronald Reagan

  Art, Microphones

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• How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

  Blaise Pascal

  Silly, Insanity, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was a die-hard, obsessed fan of Michael Jordan. I'd take his posters with me to away meets, I'd walk out on the deck in my Air Jordans before I swam, I'd write 23 on my cap. I'm just a huge Jordan fan.

  Summer Sanders

  Writing, Air, Fans

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• Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Moving, Reading

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