To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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