I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPublic opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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