It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have a room all to myself; it is nature.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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 keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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