What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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