What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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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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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Things do not change; we change.
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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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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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