“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.”
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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. 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 the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”
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“You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“The only remedy for love is to love more.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself.
So live the life you imagined.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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Nationality: American |
Born: July 12, 1817 |
Died: May 6, 1862 |
Known For: Author, Poet, Philosopher, Abolitionist, Naturalist, Tax resister, Development critic, Surveyor, and Historian.
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