"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."

Leisure, Society, Forget, Occupations

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"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."

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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."

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Izaak Walton, English Writer

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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."

Chloe Thurlow, British Novelist

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Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."

Ian Botham, English Athlete

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Izaak Walton, English Writer

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"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."

Marcus V. Pollio, American Architect

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"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.."

Motivational

"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

Simplicity

"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

Health

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Environment

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

Innovation

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

Friendship

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."

"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."

"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."

"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."

"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."

"Nice passion is reading."

"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."

"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."

"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."

"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."

Explore more quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.."

"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."