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Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think."
By Henry David Thoreau
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"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."
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"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
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"I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."
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"I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
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"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
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"It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear."
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
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"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
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"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
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"[Water is] the only drink for a wise man."
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"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
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"Men have become the tools of their tools"
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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."
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"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."
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"As if there were safety in stupidity alone."
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"I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features."
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"What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm."
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"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
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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 the infinite extent of our relations."
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"It is never too late to give up your prejudices."
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"What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can."
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"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see."
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