I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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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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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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I love to be alone.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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