It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Things do not change; we change.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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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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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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I love to be alone.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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