Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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I love to be alone.
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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