If you want to be happy, be!
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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read 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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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