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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWildness is the preservation of the World.
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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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.
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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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 keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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