As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Things do not change; we change.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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