Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Greatness

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When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Motivational, Death, Greatness

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Greatness, Law Of Attraction, Goal

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

Greatness, Important, Ordinary

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

Greatness, Essence, Poetry

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.715, Simon and Schuster

We never conceive the greatness of our fates.

Fate, Greatness, Destiny

Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.25