“There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.”

— Henry David Thoreau

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday

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1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862

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