This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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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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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.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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 find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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