"We are sometimes made aware of a kindness……" — Henry David Thoreau
"We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be."
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Henry David Thoreau
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