There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI love to be alone.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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 would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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I love to be alone.
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