What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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