Search results for 'Henry David Thoreau'  

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I am grateful for what I am and have.
My thanksgiving is perpetual...
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches.
No run on my bank can drain it
for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Henry David Thoreau

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The price of anything is the amount of life you pay for it.

Henry David Thoreau

A single drop of rain makes the grass many shades greener.

Henry David Thoreau

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

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My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

Henry David Thoreau

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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

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