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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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 would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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