If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAny fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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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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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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