To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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