As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe heart is forever inexperienced.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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