Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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If you want to be happy, 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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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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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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.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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