What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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