I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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