What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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 would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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