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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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I love to be alone.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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