Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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Create Personalise WishesIf a man walks in the…
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
21A minority is powerless…
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
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The lawyer’s truth is…
You must love the crust…
You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain.
24If a man does not keep…
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 which he hears, however measured or far away.
11A man is wise with the…
If you have built castles…
If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
9The most I can do for…
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship ine in this?
297True friendship can afford…
Under a government which…
Do not be too moral. …
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
37I have learned, that if…
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
42However mean your life…
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. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
311When I hear music, I fear…
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.
8Gardening is civil and…
How can we expect a harvest…
Nature will bear the closest…
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
11We must learn to reawaken…
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
14The youth gets together…
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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