If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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 path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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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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