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One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Source: Journals, 1906, entry...
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and...
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a...
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the...
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Source: Journals,...
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled...
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor...
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be...
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
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I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which...
The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for...
Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it.
Source: Journals, 1906,...
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by...
How earthy old people become -- mouldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of...