I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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