A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSay what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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.
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All good things are wild and free.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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