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.
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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Things do not change; we change.
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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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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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