I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Write while the heat is in you.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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All good things are wild and free.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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