Life in us is like the water in a river.
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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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 should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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