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He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. - Thoreau

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. - Thoreau

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? - Thoreau

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. - Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Thoreau

“Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.” - Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. - Thoreau

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. - Thoreau

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers. - Thoreau

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. - Thoreau