Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEnthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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 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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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