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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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