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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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Things do not change; we change.
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