A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors
("Walden, or Life in the Woods")
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.Henry David Thoreau
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David Thoreau
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
Henry David Thoreau
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Henry David Thoreau
For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself.
Henry David Thoreau
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