Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNight is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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I love to be alone.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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