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Quotes by Henry Thoreau | Essayist, Poet, and Philosopher | “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” | @reachmastery |
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately..
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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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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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately..
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should 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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
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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 where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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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.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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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.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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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.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately..
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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This world is but a canvas for our imagination.
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All good things are wild and free.
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All good things are wild and free.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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This world is but a canvas for our imagination.
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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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