Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe universe is wider than our views of it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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The universe is wider than our views of 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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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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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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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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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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