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Many men go fishing all of their lives without kn

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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have se

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We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spir

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I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

I have a great deal of company in the house, espe

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I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

The language of friendship is not words but meani

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my a

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Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand o

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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

But the place which you have selected for your ca

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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: Home is home, be it never so homely.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than

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I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without kn

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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the univer

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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through t

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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all t

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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good f

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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for

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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps p

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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to ha

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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

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