I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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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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All good things are wild and free.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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