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"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."
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"Over complication only confuses the essence of things."
"Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness."
"We need much less than we think we need."
"Adorn yourself with modest dressing."
"Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity."
"The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go running back to where things is simple. You see?"
"If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!"
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"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."
"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."
"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."
"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected."
"Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing."
"There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life."
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