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Henry David Thoreau39 quotes
Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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 Thoreau · 1854I 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. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854In the long run men hit only what they aim at. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854All 39 quotes →