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• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life
  uch are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds....
• Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest.
  Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...
• Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. -- Henry David Thoreau
• The world is but a canvas to our imagination. -- Henry David Thoreau
• Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. -- Henry David Thoreau
• Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
• To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), in "Walde
• Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic proce
  finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole....
• Simplify - There is no value in complexity, it's too difficult to manage.