That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Things do not change; we change.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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