Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTo be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I love to be alone.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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