Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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 have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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