I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.