Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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