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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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«It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.»
«You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
The Present
| Keywords:
eternity, fools, island, Islands of the, land, Land of Opportunity, launch, launches, launching, live in, No Wave, opportunities
«On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Death of, double, Fates, fulfill, henceforth, the Fates, The Task
«When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
discover, lived
«Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
attempt, change, dream, dream world, into, piece, Piece By Piece, reality
«We live but a fraction of our lives»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Living
| Keywords:
fraction, fractions
«There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.»
«City life is millions of people being lonesome together.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
city, lonesome, millions, together
«It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
birth, fruitful, given birth, intellect, marriage
«Dreams are the touchstones of our character.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Character,
Dreams
| Keywords:
touchstones
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