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.
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 keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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I love to be alone.
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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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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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