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.
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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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