How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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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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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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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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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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