To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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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.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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