As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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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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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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