If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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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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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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