The heart is forever inexperienced.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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