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Henry David Thoreau
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
--Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
--Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
--Henry David Thoreau
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
--Henry David Thoreau
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
--Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
--Henry David Thoreau
Men are born to succeed, not fail.
--Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
--Henry David Thoreau
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
--Henry David Thoreau
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
--Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
--Henry David Thoreau