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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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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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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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 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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