Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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I love to be alone.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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