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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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