What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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