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Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

-Henry David Thoreau

age

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

-Henry David Thoreau

alone

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

alone

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

-Henry David Thoreau

alone

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

-Henry David Thoreau

alone

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

-Henry David Thoreau

alone

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

-Henry David Thoreau

alone

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

-Henry David Thoreau

architecture

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

-Henry David Thoreau

art

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

-Henry David Thoreau

beauty

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

-Henry David Thoreau

beauty

That government is best which governs least.

-Henry David Thoreau

best

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

-Henry David Thoreau

best

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

-Henry David Thoreau

best

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

-Henry David Thoreau

best

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

-Henry David Thoreau

best

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

-Henry David Thoreau

best

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

-Henry David Thoreau

business

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

-Henry David Thoreau

business

Things do not change we change.

-Henry David Thoreau

change

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

-Henry David Thoreau

death

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

design

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

dreams

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

-Henry David Thoreau

dreams

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

-Henry David Thoreau

dreams

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

-Henry David Thoreau

dreams

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

dreams

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

-Henry David Thoreau

dreams

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.

-Henry David Thoreau

dreams

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

-Henry David Thoreau

environmental

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

-Henry David Thoreau

experience

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

-Henry David Thoreau

faith

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

-Henry David Thoreau

faith

Faith never makes a confession.

-Henry David Thoreau

faith

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

-Henry David Thoreau

family

Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

That government is best which governs least.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Things do not change we change.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

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.

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.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Faith never makes a confession.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

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