Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDisobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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 mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Things do not change; we change.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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