Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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