I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWildness is the preservation of the World.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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 you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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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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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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