If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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I love to be alone.
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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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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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