Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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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 question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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