Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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