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 THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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All good things are wild and free.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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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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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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Things do not change; we change.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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