Transcendentalism

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Transcendentalism

• By JJ

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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done
it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful
souls, it is always morning.
- Henry David Thoreau
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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a
genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last
refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It
does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me
truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
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The aspects of things that are most important to
us are hidden because of their simplicity and
familiarity.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
-Eugene Delacroix
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace
making the complicated simple, awesomely simple,
that's creativity.
- Charles Mingus
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Most people seek after what they do not possess
and are thus enslaved by the very things they
want to acquire.
- Anwar El-Sadat
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the
unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hofmann
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The only way to have a friend is
to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than
anything else, that prevents us from living
freely and nobly.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Who is rich?  He who rejoices in his portion. 
- The Talmud
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's
need, but not every man's greed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the
cheapest.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Any so-called material thing that you want is
merely a symbol you want it not for itself, but
because it will content your spirit for the
moment.
- Mark Twain
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Materialism is the only form of distraction from
true bliss.
- Doug Horton
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An object in possession seldom retains the same
charm that it had in pursuit.
- Pliny the Younger
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used
to luxury.
- Charlie Chaplin
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Three great forces rule the world stupidity,
fear and greed.
- Albert Einstein
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Simplicity, clarity, singleness these are the
attributes that give our lives power and
vividness and joy.
- Richard Halloway
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The love of money is the root of all kinds of
evil.
- Jesus Christ
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Let us treasure up in our soul some of those
things which are permanent..., not of those which
will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only
tickle our senses for a little while.
--Gregory of Nazianzus
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The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
- Thomas Merton
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Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into
a state of real poverty by their great anxiety
not to be thought of as poor.
- Robert Mallett
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to
gain what he cannot lose.
- Jim Elliot
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to
get rich, but to enrich the world.
- B.C. Forbes
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