A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThat man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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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 universe is wider than our views of it.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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