quotation: You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Henry David Thoreau

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

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quotation: Henry David Thoreau (above morality by points)

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.

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QUOTATION: Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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QUOTATION: Henry David Thoreau

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution–such call I good books.

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QUOTATION: Henry David Thoreau

I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.

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QUOTATION: Henry David Thoreau

I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

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QUOTATION: Henry David Thoreau ABOUT EVIL

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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Quotation: Henry David Thoreau about undue respect for a law

A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers … marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences.

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Quotation: Henry David Thoreau about our place in the world (what it should be…)

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

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QUOTATION: Henry David Thoreau

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

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Quotation: Henry David Thoreau about being “men first, and subjects afterwards”!

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

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Quotation: Henry David Thoreau about Unjust laws

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

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