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Henry David Thoreau: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ...”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?”

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Henry David Thoreau: “I stand in awe of my body.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. ”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

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Henry David Thoreau: “To be awake is to be alive.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!”

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Henry David Thoreau: “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity! ”

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Henry David Thoreau: “The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak and another to hear.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God's lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “I was determined to know beans. Walden”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.”

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