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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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