"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

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One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.
More Henry David Thoreau quotes
"A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
"However mean your life is meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are rich...
"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
"A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived...
"We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven