Renew thyself completely each day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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 generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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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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