The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive 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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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