Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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