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.
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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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