What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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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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