All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTo be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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