It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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