How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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 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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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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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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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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