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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNight is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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All good things are wild and free.
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