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The words which express our faith and piety are not definite yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
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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The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.
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Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
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I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.
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Eastward I go only by force but westward I go free.
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
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