I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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I love to be alone.
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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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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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