Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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I love to be alone.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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 you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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