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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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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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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Things do not change; we change.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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