As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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I love to be alone.
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