The universe is wider than our views of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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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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