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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau (Walden; or, Life in the Woods Quotes)

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Source:(Ticknor and Fields, ed. 1954), Chapter XVIII. Conclusion, Page 346
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Henry David Thoreau  (Walden; or, Life in the Woods Quotes)
  • Book: Walden
  • Writer: Henry David Thoreau
  • Genre: Classics, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Autobiography
  • Published: 1854
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