All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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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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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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