A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDisobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Write while the heat is in you.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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 find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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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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