The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI make myself rich by making my wants few.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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 went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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