Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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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...

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may...

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may...

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not...

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not...

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of...

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of...

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only...

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only...

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?...

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

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.

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...

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...

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

What does not kill me makes me stronger.