Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Things do not change; we change.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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.
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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.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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