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After walking by night several times, I now walk by day, but I am not aware of any crowning advantage in it. - Thoreau

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day? - Thoreau

A gun will give you the body, not the bird. - Thoreau

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

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. - Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their tools. - Thoreau

Though the damned do not love God, God loves them, and this is their torture. The very fires of Hell are made of the love of God! - Peter Kreeft

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. - Thoreau

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. - Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Thoreau