All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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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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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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