Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are constantly invited to be what we are.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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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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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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