Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Write while the heat is in you.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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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.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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