Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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I love to be alone.
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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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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 heart is forever inexperienced.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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