A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.


Henry David Thoreau

896

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Men have become the tools of their tools.


Henry David Thoreau

896

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.


Henry David Thoreau

896

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

896

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.


Henry David Thoreau

896

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.


Henry David Thoreau

896

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.


Henry David Thoreau

896

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.


Henry David Thoreau

896

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.


Henry David Thoreau

896

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.


Henry David Thoreau

896

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.


Henry David Thoreau

896

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?


Henry David Thoreau

896

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.


Henry David Thoreau

896

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.


Henry David Thoreau

896

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