I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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.
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