Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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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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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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