We are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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 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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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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 single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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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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I love to be alone.
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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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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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