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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
by 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.
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

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

The heart is forever inexperienced.
- Henry David Thoreau

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau

Simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau

Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau

Live the life you've dreamed.
- Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- Henry David Thoreau

Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau

There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau

I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty,
nor weakness weakness.
- Henry David Thoreau

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
- Henry David Thoreau

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau

Through our own recovered innocence
we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau

The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau

To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau

Faith never makes a confession.
- Henry David Thoreau

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake,
not by mechanical aid, but by
an infinite expectation of the dawn.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau

All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau

Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau

I have found that hollow,
which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau

If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

Truths and roses have thorns about them.
- Henry David Thoreau

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
by Henry David Thoreau