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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

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love. - 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

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform. - Thoreau

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Thoreau

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. - Thoreau

Who hears the fishes when they cry? - Thoreau