How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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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 find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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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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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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