The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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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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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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