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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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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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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.: Henry David Thoreau
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.: Henry David Thoreau
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.: Henry David Thoreau
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I stand in awe of my body.: 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
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.: Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.: Henry David Thoreau
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.: Henry David Thoreau
In wildness is the preservation of the world.: Henry David Thoreau
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.: Henry David Thoreau
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.: Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.: Henry David Thoreau
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.: Henry David Thoreau
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Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.: Henry David Thoreau
Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.: Henry David Thoreau
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Men are born to succeed, not fail.: Henry David Thoreau
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Men have become the tools of their tools.: Henry David Thoreau
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.: Henry David Thoreau

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