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.
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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I love to be alone.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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If you want to be happy, 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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