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.
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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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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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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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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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I love to be alone.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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