A little thought is sexton to all the world.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Of what significance the things you can forget? A little thought is sexton to all the world.
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• Source: Wikiquote: "Henry David Thoreau" (Quotes, Life Without Principle (1863):
This essay was derived from the lecture "What Shall It Profit?" which Thoreau first delivered on 6 December 1854, at Railroad Hall in Providence, Rhode Island. He delivered it several times over the next two years, and edited it for publication before he died in 1862. It was first published in the October 1863 issue of The Atlantic Monthly where it was given its modern title.)
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