I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUMen are born to succeed, not to fail.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I love to be alone.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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