The universe is wider than our views of it. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (201…

Henry David Thoreau
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The universe is wider than our views of it. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2013). The Essential Thoreau, p.185, Simon and Schuster
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Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1894). Summer.-v.7. Autumn
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The universe is wider than our views of it. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2013). The Essential Thoreau, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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