Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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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 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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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