Author

Henry David Thoreau

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“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Silence alone is worthy to be heard.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Live the life you've dreamed.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Men have become the tools of their tools.”— Henry David Thoreau
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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.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”— Henry David Thoreau