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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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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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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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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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