1. Henry David Thoreau - “Men have become the tools of their tools.”

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2. Henry David Thoreau - “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

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3. Henry David Thoreau - “Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”

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4. Henry David Thoreau - “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

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5. Henry David Thoreau - “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

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6. Henry David Thoreau - “None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

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7. Henry David Thoreau - “I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”

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8. Henry David Thoreau - “Things do not change; we change.”

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9. Henry David Thoreau - “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

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10. Henry David Thoreau - “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

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11. Henry David Thoreau - “It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”

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12. Henry David Thoreau - “It is not worth while to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.”

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13. Henry David Thoreau - “It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning round.”

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14. Henry David Thoreau - “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.”

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15. Henry David Thoreau - “Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.”

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16. Henry David Thoreau - “Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, And good for either the work of the other.”

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17. Henry David Thoreau - “Even the best things are not equal to their fame.”

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18. Henry David Thoreau - “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

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19. Henry David Thoreau - “A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”

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20. Henry David Thoreau - “I didn't see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.”

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21. Henry David Thoreau - “There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.”

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22. 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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23. Henry David Thoreau - “Goodness is the only investment which never fails.”

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24. Henry David Thoreau - “That government is best which governs least.”

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25. Henry David Thoreau - “That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

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