Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may...

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may...

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as...

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as...

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your...

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your...

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?...

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?...

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to...

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to...

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is...

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is...

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

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

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the...

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the...

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to...

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to...