If you trust the winner within you, you will win. If you can keep your courage, you will go so far. If you follow your ambitions, your course will guide you toward a ladder that you can climb to your stars.
Henry David Thoreau
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free... HENRY DAVID THOREAU I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds amo... HENRY DAVID THOREAU You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. HENRY DAVID THOREAU There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. HENRY DAVID THOREAU I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. HENRY DAVID THOREAU The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate pov... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. HENRY DAVID THOREAU I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. HENRY DAVID THOREAU I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU The question is not what you look at, but what you see. HENRY DAVID THOREAU However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any preceden... HENRY DAVID THOREAU When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest t... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the t... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Life in us is like the water in a river. HENRY DAVID THOREAU Of what significance are the things you can forget. HENRY DAVID THOREAU The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. HENRY DAVID THOREAU To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women ov... HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU