If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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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 heart is forever inexperienced.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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Go confidently in the direction of your 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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