What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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