Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAny fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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