I love to be alone.
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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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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, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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