Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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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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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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