The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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