What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAn early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Things do not change; we change.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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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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