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

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love. - Thoreau

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Thoreau

Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. - Thoreau

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

Faith never makes a confession. - Thoreau

If I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or to the maker of fire, and I have only myself to blame. - Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. - Thoreau