What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAll good things are wild and free.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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