Quote from Henry David Thoreau:
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
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Henry David Thoreau
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.
Henry David Thoreau
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
To be awake is to be alive.
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.
Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead quiet lives of desperation.
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 success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary: new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with license of a higher order of beings.
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
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity! Simplicity! Simplicity!
Henry David Thoreau
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
Henry David Thoreau
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
Henry David Thoreau
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.
