Aphorisms from Emerson and Thoreau

Different aphorisms for Emerson and Thoreau

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"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
Henry David Thoreau
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
Henry David Thoreau
"I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well."
Henry David Thoreau
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready."
Henry David Thoreau
"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."
Henry David Thoreau
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
Henry David Thoreau
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
Henry David Thoreau
"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
Henry David Thoreau
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
Henry David Thoreau
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be awake is to be alive. I have never met a man yet who was quite awake."
Henry David Thoreau
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Henry David Thoreau