Thoreau

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“What if God were to confide in us for a moment! Should we not then be gods?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Columbus has sailed westward of these isles by the mariner’s compass, but neither he nor his successors have found them. We are no nearer than Plato was. The earnest seeker and hopeful discoverer of this New World always haunts the outskirts of his time, and walks through the densest crowd uninterrupted, and, as it were, in a straight line.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)