If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEnthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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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 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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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