Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

—Henry David Thoreau

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About Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance...

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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

—Henry David Thoreau

That is mine which none can steal from me.

—Henry David Thoreau

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

—Walt Whitman

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

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