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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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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 single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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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 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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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