What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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All good things are wild and free.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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 no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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