The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

Henry David Thoreau


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As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

Henry David Thoreau


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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.

Henry David Thoreau

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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

Henry David Thoreau


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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Henry David Thoreau

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of feeble minds

Henry David Thoreau

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Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

Henry David Thoreau


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what a rich book might be made about buds and, perhaps, sprouts!

Henry David Thoreau


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