That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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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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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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