How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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