Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThere are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Things do not change; we change.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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