Wildness is the preservation of the World.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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All good things are wild and free.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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If you want to be happy, 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 truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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