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Every child begins the world again. - Thoreau

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. - Thoreau

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business. - Thoreau

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. - Thoreau

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased. - Thoreau

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants. - Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Thoreau

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. - Thoreau

Faith never makes a confession. - Thoreau

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it. - Thoreau