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 he hears, however measured or far away.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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