Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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