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Henry David Thoreau
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Biography : American essayist, poet and philosopher.
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 



It is never too late to give up our prejudices.



Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau / 





It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
Henry David Thoreau / 





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 the long run.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau - A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / 





The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau / 





Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal / 





If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
Henry David Thoreau / 





As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





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 / 





Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau - A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / 



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

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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal / 





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 weakness.
Henry David Thoreau / 





An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal / 





The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





Things do not change we change.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
Henry David Thoreau / 





The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.
Henry David Thoreau / 





What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal / 





In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.
Henry David Thoreau - The Service / 





You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal / 





Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal





If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.
Henry David Thoreau / 






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