Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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