A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prosp…

Henry David Thoreau
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2012). Walden; Or, Life in the Woods, p.203, Courier Corporation
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