A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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