“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”

Here are 12 quotes to mark the birthday of American poet, author, naturalist, philosopher, and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau.
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
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