Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I love to be alone.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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