Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
("Walden, or Life in the Woods")
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.Henry David Thoreau
Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
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We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
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