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Sunday April 3, 2016

It is hard to subject ourselves to an influence. It must steal upon us when we expect it not, and its work be all done ere we are aware of it. if we make advances, it is shy; if, when we feel its presence, we presume to pry into its freemasonry, it vanishes,and leaves us alone in our folly.

—Henry David Thoreau
  American writer and naturalist (1817-1862)



Source:journal entry, February 13, 1838




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