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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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