If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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