Top & Most Famous Henry David Thoreau Quotes
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
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"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
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"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
"What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
"Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."
"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change."
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."
"How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?"
"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."
"The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist."
"The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard."
"I have 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."
"It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."
"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."
"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."
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined."
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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."
"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
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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."
"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see."
"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."
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
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