Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe universe is wider than our views of it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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I love to be alone.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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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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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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