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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

By Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

By Henry David Thoreau
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

By Henry David Thoreau
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

By Henry David Thoreau
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life

By Henry David Thoreau
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

By Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

By Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

By Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

By Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

By Henry David Thoreau
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

By Henry David Thoreau
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

By Henry David Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools

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Men have become the tools of their tools.

By Henry David Thoreau
Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

By Henry David Thoreau
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

By Henry David Thoreau
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

By Henry David Thoreau
Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.

By Henry David Thoreau
Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh.

By Henry David Thoreau
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

By Henry David Thoreau
Live the life you've dreamed.

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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

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Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

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Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

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It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear.

By Henry David Thoreau
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

By Henry David Thoreau