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“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“the poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The man of science, who is not seeking for expression but for a fact to be expressed merely, studies nature as a dead language.
I pray for such inward experience as will make nature significant.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Civil Disobedience

“One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate...Love must be as much a light as a flame.”
― Henry David Thoreau