Quote from Henry David Thoreau:
If you have built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Not put the foundations under them.
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Henry David Thoreau
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
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
John Quincy Adams
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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 foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail.
Henry David Thoreau
I wanted to live deep and suck out all he marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swatch and shave close, to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it or if it were sublime to know it by experience and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
Henry David Thoreau
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wander at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
Henry David Thoreau
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
Henry David Thoreau
"It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau
To be awake is to be alive.
