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Be not simply good - be good for something.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Things do not change; we change.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
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.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
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.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
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.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
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.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Written by Henry David Thoreau

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