Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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 no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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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