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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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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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