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"Things do not change; we change."
42+ Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
A curated collection of 42 inspirational quotes by Henry David Thoreau on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"Faith never makes a confession."
— Henry David Thoreau
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"The perception of beauty is a moral test."
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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
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"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
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"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
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"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
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"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
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"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
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"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
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"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
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"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
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"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
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"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
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"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."
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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."
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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."
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"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."
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"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."
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"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
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"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
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"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
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"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."
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"I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
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"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
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"Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!"
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"Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!"
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"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
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"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
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"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive."
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"Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling."
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"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."
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"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."
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"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."