That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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