I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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