I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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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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