Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAn early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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