Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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I love to be alone.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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