Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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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.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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