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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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