Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Write while the heat is in you.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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 went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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