Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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