The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Write while the heat is in you.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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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.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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