Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,...

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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

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Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where...

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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be...

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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to...

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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy,...

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

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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep...

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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

#Henry David Thoreau