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 THOREAURead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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.
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