If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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