We are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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