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.
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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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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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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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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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