Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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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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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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