It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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