I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

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Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

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I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

Henry David Thoreau

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I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Henry David Thoreau


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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

Henry David Thoreau

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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau


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See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

Henry David Thoreau

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Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Henry David Thoreau


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The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

Henry David Thoreau


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