Henry David Thoreau on book
“A written word is the choicest of relics.”
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau 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.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Write while the heat is in you.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau We are constantly invited to be what we are.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau
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Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Can anybody hear me? Are my words going to waste I need to believe there was a purpose to all the pain?
Allie MillerAllie Miller The universe hears what you say, but it knows what you mean.
Brianna PastorBrianna Pastor Enough of this. The next one I love will return my passion.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor It’s unconditional; their chemistry is unconditional – forever.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett I love you so much that it hurts and that’s the problem I love you so much that it hurts.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
Mariya FedulovaMariya Fedulova Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
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My library is an archive of longings.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read!
Mitch HedbergMitch Hedberg Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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