Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Things do not change; we change.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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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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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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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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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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