Life in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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 man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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