100+ Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Crowd Cushion Myself Pumpkin Velvet
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Breathe Drinking Earth Fruit Influence Live Nature Season Taste
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Fashion Generation Laugh Religion
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Eternity Healing Inspirational Live Moments Present Wave
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Earth Feets Head Heaven Inspirational Nature
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Minimalism Myself One Liner Rich
If you want to be happy, be!
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Happiness Inspirational Life One Liner
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Book Life Literature Man Reading
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Cheap Man Minimalism Pleasure Rich Simplicity
I love to be alone.
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Alone Healing Love One Liner
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Cost exchange Immediate Life Requirement
We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Advice Born Innocent One Liner Pollute
Renew thyself completely each day.
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Inspirational One Liner Renew
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Awake Morning Philosophy Stars Sun Sunrise
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Confidence Direction Dreamss Encourage Inspirational One Liner
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Life Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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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Believe Convince Leadership Man Moral
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Eternity Humour Injury Kill Time Wisdom
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Confuse Inspirational Men
The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Cook Men Path Resistance River
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Compare Opinion People Public Weakness
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Disturb Imperfection Inspirational Life Worth
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Bond Friendship One Liner
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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Infinite Lost Realize Relationship World
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Infinite Lost Realize Relationship World
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Companion Hear Man Music Place
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Companion Hear Man Music Place

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