Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
Henry David Thoreau
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau
It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves
Henry David Thoreau
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
Henry David Thoreau
Let nothing come between you and the light.
Henry David Thoreau
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