What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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