What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI 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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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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I love to be alone.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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