"Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse."
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"Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity."
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"What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind."
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"A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority."
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"If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone."
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"If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point."
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"He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present."
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"We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim's shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell."
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"How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature."
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"It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known."
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"We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea."
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"I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength."
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"In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison."
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"I was not born to be forced."
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"Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer."
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"The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones."
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"We do not live by justice, but by grace."
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"Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection."
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"We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention."
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"There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living."
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