I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAll good things are wild and free.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf you want to be happy, be!
HENRY DAVID THOREAURather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEnthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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