Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNight is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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