What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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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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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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