What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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I love to be alone.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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