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" It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. "

Henry David Thoreau

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" It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. "

" I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid. "

" I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. "

" There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. "

" Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. "

" In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. "

" What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. "

" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "

" We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. "

" The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do? "

" I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. "

" So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. "

" Men have become the tools of their tools. "

" Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. "

" To be awake is to be alive. "

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" I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. "

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" To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. "

" There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. "

" I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment. "

" As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. "

" Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. "

" True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. "

" That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest. "

" What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. "

" They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. "

" In wildness is the preservation of the world. "

" Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. "

" Truths and roses have thorns about them. "