Henry David Thoreau quote: Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene...

Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire.

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Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.194

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Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire. - Henry David Thoreau

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