I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAny fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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All good things are wild and free.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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