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.
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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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I 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.
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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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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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