I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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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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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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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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