Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
More Quotes from 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 bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.Henry David Thoreau
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.
Henry David Thoreau
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau
The Youth gets together the materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or temple on earth, but alas, at length, the middle aged man concludes to build a wood shed with the materials.
Henry David Thoreau
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
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