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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAll men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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 would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Things do not change; we change.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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