Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

"He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life."
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"He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life."
Henry David Thoreau
"City life - millions of people being lonesome together."
Henry David Thoreau
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
Henry David Thoreau
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau
"For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully."
Henry David Thoreau
"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
Henry David Thoreau
"Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are."
Henry David Thoreau
"Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify."
Henry David Thoreau
"This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction."
Henry David Thoreau
"Misfortunes occur only when a man is false... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown."
Henry David Thoreau
"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
Henry David Thoreau
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots."
Henry David Thoreau
"Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?"
Henry David Thoreau
"Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
Henry David Thoreau
"The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it."
Henry David Thoreau
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison."
Henry David Thoreau
"It is life near the bone where it is sweetest."
Henry David Thoreau
"Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown."
Henry David Thoreau
"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."
Henry David Thoreau
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