Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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