Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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 truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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