It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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