I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Things do not change; we change.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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