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Will Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- 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…
- As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To…
- If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than…
- As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness…
- If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating…
- Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- 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…
- Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its…
- If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
- The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in…
- No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
- The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
- I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
- Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
- Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,…
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life…
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