I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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I love to be alone.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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