I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNot 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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All good things are wild and free.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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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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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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