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 THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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