I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAny fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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All good things are wild and free.
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