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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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I...

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I...

We live but a fraction of our lives

$We live but a fraction of our lives$

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

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...

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is...

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is...

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

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...

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see...

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see...

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or...

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or...

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what...

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what...

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who...

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who...

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places...

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in...

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and...

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and...