List of quotes from Henry David Thoreau
"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 again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." by Henry David Thoreau
"All good things are wild, and free."
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"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without."
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"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
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"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"
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"In wildness is the preservation of the world."
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"The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men."
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"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in."
by Henry David Thoreau Walden
"Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet."
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"How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!"
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"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."
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"Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else."
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"Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived."
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"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
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"I stand in awe of my body."
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