Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNot 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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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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 make myself rich by making my wants few.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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