I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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