It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDisobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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 most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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