Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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