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"Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Morality

"If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Names

"To 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. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Philosophers and Philosophy

"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Poetry and Poets

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Present

"I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Profits

"Be not simply good; be good for something."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Purpose

"I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Reform

"We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Respectability

"Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Rules


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