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Henry David Thoreau quotes
American essayist and naturalist (1817-1862), author of Walden.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
You must get your living by loving.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves.
It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or an oak.
I love a broad margin to my life.
Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage.
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers.
The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.
The year beginning with younger hope than ever!
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth.
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.
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