The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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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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