Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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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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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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I 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.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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