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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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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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