“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
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“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“The perception of beauty is a moral test.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.”
— 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.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: life
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