How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
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We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest. . .Henry David Thoreau
Poverty it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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People die of fright and live of confidence.
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