The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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