Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAll good things are wild and free.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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I love to be alone.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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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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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 plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Things do not change; we change.
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