Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

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Quotations about Leisure

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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to >>

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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe?

Thoreau, Henry David