How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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I love to be alone.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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