Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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I love to be alone.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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All good things are wild and free.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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