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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
By Henry David Thoreau
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
By Henry David Thoreau
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
By Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
By Henry David Thoreau
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
By Henry David Thoreau
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
By Henry David Thoreau
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
By Henry David Thoreau
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
By Henry David Thoreau
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.
By Henry David Thoreau
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
By Henry David Thoreau
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
By Henry David Thoreau
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 make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
By Henry David Thoreau
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
By Henry David Thoreau
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.
By Henry David Thoreau
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
By Henry David Thoreau
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
By Henry David Thoreau
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
By Henry David Thoreau