Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSay what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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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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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.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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