Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by...

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by...

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with...

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with...

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...

I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for...

I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for...

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry...

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry...

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could...

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could...

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest...

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest...

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe...

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe...

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors...

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors...

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might...

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might...

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use...

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use...

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit...

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit...