"He who distinguishes the true savor of..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
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“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
“Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.”
“If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.”
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“Too much success is not an advantage.Do not tinkle like jadeOr clatter like stone chimes.”
“Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.”
“For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.”