#walden

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence,

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Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

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There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature, —of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter, —such health,

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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is

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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for

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What everybody passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted

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The universe is wider than our views of it.

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations

_Walden by Henry David Thoreau_