Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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