I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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 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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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