Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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