Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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