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 THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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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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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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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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