What is religion? That which is never spoken.

—Henry David Thoreau

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About Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance...

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

—Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Men have become the tools of their tools.

—Henry David Thoreau

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The heart is forever inexperienced.

—Henry David Thoreau

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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

—Henry David Thoreau

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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

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Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you’ll regret and still, you do them.

—C.K. Kelly Martin in I Know It’s Over

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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

—Ingrid Bergman

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