A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUCould a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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