We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I love to be alone.
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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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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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 have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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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