Of what significance are the things you can forget.
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.Henry David Thoreau
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
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A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
Henry David Thoreau
A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
Henry David Thoreau
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