The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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