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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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