Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Not 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.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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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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