Tag: Henry David Thoreau

Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

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Men have become the tools of their tools.

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Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

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My friend is one… who take me for what I am.

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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

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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 plain.

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