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 THOREAUPublic opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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 would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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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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