Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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