To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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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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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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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