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Henry David Thoreau
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations...
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
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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 la...
“Wildness is the preservation of the World.”
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influen...
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
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“Things do not change; we change.”
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must a...
“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperat...
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that a...
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he wi...
“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
“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 ...
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herse...
