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Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must ha...more

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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have e...more

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In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meetin...more

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As for Doing-good,that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried itfairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it do...more

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Sometimes, in a summer morning,having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrisetill noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines an...more

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Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three tim...more

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It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

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This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wan...more

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‎I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vig...more

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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a l...more

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My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that ...more

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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

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Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most cons...more