Henry David Thoreau on air
“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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Write while the heat is in you.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau We are constantly invited to be what we are.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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I feel like my breath is muffled, and my heart is too heavy to beat, as if I’m drowning in a pool of air.
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Bruno MarsBruno Mars I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.
EmpedoclesEmpedocles But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.
EmpedoclesEmpedocles Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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