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"Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify." -- Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau on Achieving Success

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." -- Henry David Thoreau, via Elite Etiquette Tip of the Week

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Thoreau on Fashion

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." -- Henry David Thoreau

"And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass." — Henry David Thoreau

"Behold how the evening now steals over the fields, the shadows of the trees creeping farther and farther into the meadow, and erelong the stars will come to bathe in these retired waters." — Henry David Thoreau

"Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures." — Henry David Thoreau

"As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs." -- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), via Dog News

"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it." -- Henry David Thoreau

"The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful." — Henry David Thoreau

Duty | "He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed." -- Henry David Thoreau

Clothes | "It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes." -- Henry David Thoreau

City Life | "City life: millions of people being lonesome together." -- 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 success unexpected in common hours." -- Henry David Thoreau

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." -- Henry David Thoreau

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man? -- Henry David Thoreau

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." -- Henry David Thoreau

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." -- Henry David Thoreau

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the higher of arts." -- Henry David Thoreau

"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains." -- Henry David Thoreau

"How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?" -- Henry David Thoreau