The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Things do not change; we change.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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