What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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 went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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