Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhen 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.
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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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 truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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