"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

Thought, Thoughts, Deep, Earth

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"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

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Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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William James, American Philosopher

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"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."

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"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

George Orwell, British Author

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"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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Explore more quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

Simplicity

"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

Health

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

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"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

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"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

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"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

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