Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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