A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Be not simply good; be good for something.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau
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