If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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