Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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All good things are wild and free.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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