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“I have passed down the river before sunrise on a summer morning, between fields of lilies still shut in sleep; and when, at length, the flakes of sunlight from over the bank fell on the surface of the water, whole fields of white blossoms seemed to flash open before me, as I floated along, like the unfolding of a banner, so sensible is this flower to the influence of the suns rays.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of mans afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)
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