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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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I love to be alone.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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