The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe universe is wider than our views of it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If you want to be happy, be!
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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I love to be alone.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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 say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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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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