The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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