The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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