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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

«A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it»
«The bluebird carries the sky on his back.»
«I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.»
«It is a great art to saunter»
«The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.»
«While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless»
«Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.»
«The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.»
«After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.»
«What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?»