If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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