What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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 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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Things do not change; we change.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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