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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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