Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag...

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag...

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I...

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I...

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in...

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in...

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to...

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to...

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when...

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when...

All good things are wild, and free.

All good things are wild, and free.

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

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

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...

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the...

Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the...

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now...

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now...

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things....

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things....