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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.
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In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
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