Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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