What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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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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