Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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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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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

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The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau

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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau

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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
- Henry David Thoreau

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I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
- Henry David Thoreau

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You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
- Henry David Thoreau

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau

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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.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau

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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau

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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.
- Henry David Thoreau

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I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
- 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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We are double edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
- Henry David Thoreau

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In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.
- Henry David Thoreau

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It takes two to speak the truth one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau

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