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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. - Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Thoreau

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

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do. - Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head - Thoreau

My life is like a stroll upon the beach. - Thoreau

Thank God, man cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth! - Thoreau

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home. - Thoreau

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. - Thoreau