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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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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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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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