How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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