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“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
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“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
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“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
― The Ladies' Paradise
― The Ladies' Paradise
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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