"To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
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“A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.”
“For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.”
“I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.”
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“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.”
“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
“If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.”