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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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 find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Confirm Desperation Lead Live Men Quiet Resignation
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Absolute Cat Destiny Origin Philosophy

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