The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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All good things are wild and free.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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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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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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If you want to be happy, be!
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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