The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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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 most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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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