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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOnly that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA written word is the choicest of relics.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhen 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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