If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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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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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Things do not change; we change.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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