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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Things do not change; we change.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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