As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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 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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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