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  1. Henry David Thoreau _ A Week on the Concord and

    Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. We are scarcely less afflicted when we remember some unworthiness in our conduct in a dream, than if it had been actual, and the intensity of our grief, which is our atonement, measures inversely the degree by which this is separated from an actual unworthiness. For in dreams we but act a part which must have been learned and rehearsed in our waking hours, and no doubt could discover some waking consent thereto. If this meanness has not its foundation in us, why are we grieved at it?
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  2. Henry David Thoreau _ A Week on the Concord and

    Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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  3. Henry David Thoreau _ A Week on the Concord and

    In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood
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  4. Henry David Thoreau _ A Week on the Concord and

    Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
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  5. Henry David Thoreau _ A Week on the Concord and

    This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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  6. Henry David Thoreau _ A Week on the Concord and

    I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was 'breaking the Lord's fourth commandment,' and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had befallen him whenever he had done any ordinary work on the Sabbath. He really thought that a god was on the watch to trip up those men who followed any secular work on this day, and did not see that it was the evil conscience of the workers that did it. . There are few things more disheartening and disgusting than when you are walking the streets of a strange village on the Sabbath, to hear a preacher shouting like a boatswain in a gale of wind, and thus harshly profaning the quiet atmosphere of the day.
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  7. Henry David Thoreau _ A Week on the Concord and

    The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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  8. Henry David Thoreau _ A Week on the Concord and

    Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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