Author

Henry David Thoreau

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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 success unexpected in common hours.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path we walk and walk again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“The language of excitement is at best picturesque; merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.”— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Be not simply good - be good for something.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.”— Henry David Thoreau