Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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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 was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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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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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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