The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAURather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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 want to be happy, be!
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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 most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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