A written word is the choicest of relics.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDreams are the touchstones of our characters.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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 say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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