• Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer 1817-1862
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. desperation
2. quiet
3. grave
4. still

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. by : Henry David Thoreau

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