so that we should suspect that we might be conversing with an angel. B… — Walden

Walden — Henry David Thoreau

so that we should suspect that we might be conversing with an angel. Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.

Place: ¶308
License: Public domain · Source
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