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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.

Henry David Thoreau

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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Take 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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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