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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 |
“It's not what you look at
that matters, it's what you see.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately...”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“Never look back unless you
are planning to go that way.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when
you have not stood up to live.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“Rather than love, than
money, than fame, give me truth.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of
yourself should be.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters
compared to what lives within us.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“Most men lead lives of
quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
- Henry David Thoreau, |
“There is no remedy for
love, but to love more.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“Books are the treasured
wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and
nations.”
- Henry David Thoreau, |
“Disobedience is the true
foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“If a man does not keep
pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“Not till we are completely
lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“Do not be too moral. You
may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply
good, be good for something.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“Live in each season as it
passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign
yourself to the influence of the earth.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“Our life is frittered away
by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“We must walk consciously
only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our
success.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
- Henry David Thoreau, |
“Be true to your work, your
word, and your friend.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“I have never found a
companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“The price of anything is
the amount of life you exchange for it.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“All good things are wild
and free.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“Any fool can make a rule,
and any fool will mind it.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“The greatest compliment
that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to
my answer.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“the language of friendship
is not words but meanings.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“Nothing makes the earth
seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes
and longitudes.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“One is not born into the
world to do everything but to do something.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“I would rather sit on a
pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet
cushion.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“Dreams are the touchstones
of our characters.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“Go confidently in the
direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“Could a greater miracle
take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an
instant?”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“Our truest life is when we
are in dreams awake.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“A man is rich in
proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“However mean your life is,
meet it and live it.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“Every generation laughs at
the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“Things do not change; we
change.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“An early-morning walk is a
blessing for the whole day.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
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“If we will be quiet and
ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“Heaven is under our feet
as well as over our heads.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
