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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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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 was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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