If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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