More from Henry David Thoreau

  1. The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the mi…
  2. Fire is the most tolerable third party.
  3. The perception of beauty is a moral test.
  4. Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
  5. The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
  6. Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
  7. Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
  8. The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-s…

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