I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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All good things are wild and free.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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