The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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