If you want to be happy, be!
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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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