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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. – Epictetus

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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. – Thomas Hobbes

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I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. – W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919

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To be admitted to Natures hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain. – Henry David Thoreau

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And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro nature, moulding men. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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