The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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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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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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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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