It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Things do not change; we change.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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