Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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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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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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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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I love to be alone.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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