I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNight is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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