Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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 life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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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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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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