If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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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The universe is wider than our views of 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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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If you want to be happy, be!
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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