What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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