It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA written word is the choicest of relics.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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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 had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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 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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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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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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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