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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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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 a success unexpected in common hours.
It's now what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes softly and sits on your shoulder.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.