As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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