The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPublic opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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