Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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 say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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