A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNight is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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