The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have a room all to myself; it is nature.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Things do not change; we change.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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 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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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All good things are wild and free.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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