“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: dreams
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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: good
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“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: god
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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: design
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“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: love
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“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: men
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“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: learning
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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
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: love
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“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: knowledge
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“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: motivational
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“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: war
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