Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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 never too late to give up your prejudices.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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