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.
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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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