The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNot till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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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