It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

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Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

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I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Henry David Thoreau in Houghton Mifflin
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What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

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Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Henry David Thoreau in Walden
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