The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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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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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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