As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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