To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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