The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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