Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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 plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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