Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of 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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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 have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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