“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: life
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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Category: love
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“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Category: money
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“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: men
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“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: society
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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.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: nature
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“As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: society
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“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Category: time
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“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: nature
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“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: respect
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