The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSay what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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