I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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