What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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