Tag: 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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Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau
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Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau
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Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Henry David Thoreau
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
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How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!
Henry David Thoreau
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Henry David Thoreau
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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.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau