Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf you want to be happy, be!
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Things do not change; we change.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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