We are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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