Walden

Review

A hard book to read but houses some of the best quotes and thinking ever

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Highlights

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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. — thoreau

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Confucius said, “To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” — thoreau

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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. — thoreau

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“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. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary … If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.