Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

"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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"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."
Henry David Thoreau
"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."
Henry David Thoreau
"Tis healthy to be sick sometimes."
Henry David Thoreau
"Men have become the tools of their tools."
Henry David Thoreau
"I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage."
Henry David Thoreau
"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."
Henry David Thoreau
"Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours."
Henry David Thoreau
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
Henry David Thoreau
"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."
Henry David Thoreau
"If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life."
Henry David Thoreau
"In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high."
Henry David Thoreau
"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."
Henry David Thoreau
"It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God."
Henry David Thoreau
"Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something."
Henry David Thoreau
"There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness."
Henry David Thoreau
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
Henry David Thoreau
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."
Henry David Thoreau
"A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone."
Henry David Thoreau
"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."
Henry David Thoreau
"However mean your life is meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life."
Henry David Thoreau
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