What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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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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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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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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