I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTake 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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I love to be alone.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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