We cannot well do without our sins they are the highway of our virtue.
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Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it Is the scholastic air any advantage.Henry David Thoreau
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
Henry David Thoreau
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality
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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
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Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.
Henry David Thoreau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau
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