As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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