The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have a room all to myself; it is nature.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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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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