"Four things to think about. 1. Beware..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred. 3. Keep three chairs in your house. One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. 4. To preserve your relationship to nature, make your life more moral, more pure, more innocent.
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“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.”
“A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.”
“I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will take his place in a regular order, and substantially add his own knowledge to the knowledge of previous generations.”
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“I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.”
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“Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar”
“Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.”
“Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.”