This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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.
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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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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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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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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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