Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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