How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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