Aphorisms and favorite sayings henry david thoreau
1. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
2. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
3. "Simplify, simplify."
4. "Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify."
5. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
6. "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."
7. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
8. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
9. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
10. "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
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