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“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.”

Henry David Thoreau · Men

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Henry David Thoreau

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Motivation

Henry David Thoreau

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Society

Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Loneliness

Henry David Thoreau

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Nature