If you want to be happy, be!
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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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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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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