If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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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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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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