Tag: 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 a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David Thoreau
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau
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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau