“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”
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Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.