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By Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.
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- Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854 · Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, p. 106
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- Internet Archive (Boston Public Library scan of the Ticknor and Fields edition)
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From the chapter "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" of Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). This is the text of the first edition.