If you want to be happy, be!
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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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