To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If you want to be happy, be!
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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