I 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.
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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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