An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAn early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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 THOREAUDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe heart is forever inexperienced.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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 THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPublic opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSay what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNot 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTo be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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