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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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