I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULife in us is like the water in a river.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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