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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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