The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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 mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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