Top 10 Henry David Thoreau Quotes

• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
• I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
• How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
• The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
• Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
• Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
• Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
• The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
• The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

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