How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThis world is but canvas to our imaginations.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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