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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Things do not change; we change.
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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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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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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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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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