It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Write while the heat is in you.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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.
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