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“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.””
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau 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.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau 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.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau 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.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The universe is wider than our views of it.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau
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