I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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