The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNight is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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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.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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