Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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 would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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