Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with...

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with...

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at...

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at...

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the...

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the...

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest...

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest...

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now...

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now...

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one...

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one...

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments...

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments...

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he...

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he...

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in...

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in...

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a...

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a...

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the...

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the...