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The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God. - Thoreau

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts. - Thoreau

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. - Thoreau

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. - Thoreau

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. - 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

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ. - Thoreau

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. - Thoreau

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time. - Thoreau