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.
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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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I love to be alone.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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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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