Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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