Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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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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