"Do not be too moral. You may..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth”
“You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.”
“My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.”
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“The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.”
“I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.”
“Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”