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Quotations by author » Henry David Thoreau
American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Belief
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat
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Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.
Love
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
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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.
Regret
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
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Man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedent, so little has been tried.
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
Purpose
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know tha
Health
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Men
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science
Men
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
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Men have become the fools of their tools
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.
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Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up
Lies
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
MoneySoul
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties
BusinessLiving
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
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