Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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I love to be alone.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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 find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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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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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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