I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you...

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you...

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...

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

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

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

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

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life...

In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life...

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction

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...

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

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...

All good things are wild, and free.

All good things are wild, and free.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not...

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not...

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that...

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that...

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...

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

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

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with...

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with...

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.