You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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