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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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I love to be alone.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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