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.
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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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 a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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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