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" There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. "

Henry David Thoreau

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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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" In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. "

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" It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate. "

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" It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. "

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" Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? "

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" What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. "

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" What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. "

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" What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. "

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" Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. "

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" If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. "

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" Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. "

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" The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. "

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" How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact! "

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" A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. "

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" The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. "

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" Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. "

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" Being is the great explainer. "

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" The universe is wider than our views of it. "

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" The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. "

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" There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. "

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" Live the life you've dreamed. "

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" If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. "

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" Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. "

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" The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. "

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" So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. "

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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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