My favorite quotes from the book "Walden" by Henry D. Thoreau.

1. WALDEN,
or, life in the woods
by Henry D. Thoreau
My favorite quotes from “Walden”, by Henry D. Thoreau.
(images from www.sxc.hu)

2. I went to the woods because I
wished to
live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts
of life, and see if I could not
learn what I thad to teach, and
not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not
lived.

3. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
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4. 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.

5. Not till we are lost, do we begin to find ourselves
It is a surprising and memorable experience to be lost in the woods any time.

6. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work
we do; and yet how much is not done by us.

7. One generation abandons the enterprises of
another like stranded vessels

8. Every generation laughs
at the old fashions, but
follows religiously the
new

9. In the long run,
men hit only what
they aim at

10. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas,
but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate

11. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in

12. Things do not change.
We change.

13. I t I s N o t A l l B o o k s T h a t A r e A s D u l l A s T h e i r R e a d e r s

14. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now just put the foundations under them.

15. The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us