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Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

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  1. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
  2. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
  3. ...men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, t…
  4. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved e…
  5. A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest …
  6. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a succe…
  7. Simplify, simplify.
  8. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it …

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Topics in this quote

  • spirituality
  • wellbeing
  • money
  • materialism
  • need
  • spirit

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