I make myself rich by making my wants few.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Things do not change; we change.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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