Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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I love to be alone.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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