Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clo…

Henry David Thoreau
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Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1882). Walden, p.125
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