If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA written word is the choicest of relics.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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