That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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 mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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