"The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer."

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Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

— Henry David Thoreau