I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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