A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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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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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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All good things are wild and free.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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