Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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