This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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 had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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