What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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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 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.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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