“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“The heart of Man is not compound of lies,
but draws some wisdom from the only Wise.”
Mythopoeia (1931)
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