If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Things do not change; we change.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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