Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTake long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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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 would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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