The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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I love to be alone.
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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, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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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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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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