This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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 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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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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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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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All good things are wild and free.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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