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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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