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It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God. - Thoreau

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. Job 19:25

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Thoreau

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

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained. - Thoreau

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from. - Thoreau

If I am not I, who will be? - Thoreau

We are older by faith than by experience. - Thoreau

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

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