Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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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.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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