Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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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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