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.
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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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 find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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