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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
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July 12
, 1817
Died:
May 6
, 1862
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
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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.
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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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.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
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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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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
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.
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