How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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