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" How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? "
Henry David Thoreau
Living
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" If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. "
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" I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while. "
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" Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. "
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" There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. "
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" Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. "
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" The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. "
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" If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. "
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" Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. "
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" Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. "
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" We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. "
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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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You
" Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. "
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Earth
" Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. "
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" They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. "
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" A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. "
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Time
Man
" I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. "
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Great
House
" Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder. "
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" Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! "
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" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "
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Wise
" Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. "
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Never
" Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. "
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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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" In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. "
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