Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Things do not change; we change.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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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