Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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