If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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