That government is best which governs least.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.Henry David Thoreau
The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.
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There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Henry David Thoreau
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