If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Other Henry David Thoreau quotes:
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
All good things are wild, and free.
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
