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 THOREAUTo be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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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.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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All good things are wild and free.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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