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.
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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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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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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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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I love to be alone.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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