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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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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