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In short, as a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

Henry David Thoreau (Life Without Principle)

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Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.

Henry David Thoreau

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Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

Henry David Thoreau

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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting.

Henry David Thoreau

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Once those setters who hadn't fled back to England moved out of their (literal) holes in the ground, learned to use the canoe and grow local crops (usually in Indian fields), the entrepreneurial spirit wasted no time in elbowing the Holy Spirit aside

John Valiant (The Golden Spruce)

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If we so desire, May we have our whims; And not our whims us.

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau

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But things respect the devout mind, and a mental ecstasy was never interrupted

Henry David Thoreau

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Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive

Bill Cunningham

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live at home like a traveler.

Henry David Thoreau

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The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Ashleigh Brilliant. (via sublimequotesilove)

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.

Bertrand Russell (via philosophybits)

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Even worse than one’s own guilt is one’s own righteousness, and even worse than one’s own righteousness is to take in vain the ultimate.

Soren Kierkegaard (via philosophybits)

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Dispose yourself to embrace the truth, wherever it is found.

John Locke (via philosophybits)

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats. (via sublimequotesilove)

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Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods

James Agee (Let us now praise famous men)

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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Abraham Lincoln. (via sublimequotesilove)