There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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