What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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All good things are wild and free.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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