Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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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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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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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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A 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.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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