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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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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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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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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