The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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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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