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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Success
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
Henry David Thoreau
Man
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau
Intelligence
Earth
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau
Books
Chance
First
May
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
Love
Money
Truth
Fame
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau
Love
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Man
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Friend
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature
God
Effort
Laws
Party
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David Thoreau
Temple
Earth
Man
Moon
Youth
The universe is wider than our views of it.
Henry David Thoreau
Universe
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau
Jest
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
Faith
Happiness
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David Thoreau
Man
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Henry David Thoreau
Quality
Truth