So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.

Henry David Thoreau

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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

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It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. by Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. by Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people... by Henry David Thoreau

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with... by Henry David Thoreau

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

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There is no remedy for love but to love more. by Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters co... by Henry David Thoreau

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

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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.

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be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. by Henry David Thoreau

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

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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. by Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

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I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

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To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to s... by Henry David Thoreau

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

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I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.

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The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

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