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.
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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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