What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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