King David

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“I am as unfit for any practical purpose—I mean for the furtherance of the world’s ends—as gossamer for ship-timber; and I, who am going to be a pencil-maker to-morrow, can sympathize with God Apollo, who served King Admetus for a while on earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)