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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.



If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.



You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.



A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.



Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.



It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.



Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.



Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.



There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.



There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.



He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his souls estate.



A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.



Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.



All good things are wild, and free.



If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.







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