Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThere are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I love to be alone.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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