As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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 written word is the choicest of relics.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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