Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

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Quotations about Self-knowledge

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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. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

Thoreau, Henry David