If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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