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There is no remedy for love but to love more.Henry David ThoreauJournal, 1839verified
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
I love a broad margin to my life.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
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.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
In the long run men hit only what they aim at.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
Our life is frittered away by detail.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
Things do not change; we change.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854verified
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854
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