I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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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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