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Henry David Thoreau

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

genius henry david thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because 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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...

Henry David Thoreau

genius henry david thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

genius henry david thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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