Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.Henry David Thoreau
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Henry David Thoreau
Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
Henry David Thoreau
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
Henry David Thoreau
I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw
Henry David Thoreau
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