It is something to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful. It is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look.
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No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.Henry David Thoreau
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and for mere gluttony.
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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What I have been preparing to say is this, in wildness is the preservation of the world ... Life consists of wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued by man, its presence refreshes him.... When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature. In short, all good things are wild and free.
Henry David Thoreau
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
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