I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry...

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry...

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest...

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest...

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give...

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give...

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of...

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of...

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

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

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer,...

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer,...

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the...

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the...

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism...

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism...

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is...

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is...

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of...

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of...

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this...

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this...

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them...

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them...

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.

Live the life you've dreamed

Live the life you've dreamed

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.

This is when Money will be dethroned! Only when there will not be many people...

This is when Money will be dethroned! Only when there will not be many people...

A boy gave a girl 13 roses; 12 were real, 1 was fake, then the...

A boy gave a girl 13 roses; 12 were real, 1 was fake, then the...