If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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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 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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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