I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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