You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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