I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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I love to be alone.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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