I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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