The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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