I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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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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The universe is wider than our views of 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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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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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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