What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUMen are born to succeed, not to fail.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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I love to be alone.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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