A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.
Henry David ThoreauTo be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.
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Simplify, simplify.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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The house is still but a sort of porch at the entrance of a burrow.
Henry David ThoreauI have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.
Henry David ThoreauAs with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.
Henry David ThoreauOur inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
Henry David ThoreauI am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
Henry David ThoreauNations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.
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