Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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All good things are wild and free.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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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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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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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