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Asks Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's…
- The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith…
- A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The…
- Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.
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