Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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