Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOnly that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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