We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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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.
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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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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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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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