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Misattributed quotes — Henry David Thoreau

1817–1862 United States

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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

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Truths and roses have thorns about them.

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

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Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry David Thoreau (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.