As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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