If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWildness is the preservation of the World.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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