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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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I love to be alone.
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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 would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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All good things are wild and free.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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