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Henry David Thoreau
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“if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“men have become the tools of their tools.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact...”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Henry David Thoreau
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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 which he hears, however measured or far away.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Things do not change; we change.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“To be awake is to be alive.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“I have . . . my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“True, there never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Our life is frittered away by detail.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“when the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden
“The philosopher is in advance of his age even in the outward form of his life.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others still are entirely unknown.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?”
Henry David Thoreau
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“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”
Henry David Thoreau
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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.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.”
Henry David Thoreau
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