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Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
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's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity! Simplicity! Simplicity!
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.
Henry David Thoreau
To be awake is to be alive.
Henry David Thoreau
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead quiet lives of desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail.
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