As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSay what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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