Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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 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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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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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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