Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, open…

Henry David Thoreau
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. ✨ Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life, p.421, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
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