Life in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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 find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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