What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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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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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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