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By Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.
- Source
- Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854 · Conclusion, p. 350
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- Internet Archive (Boston Public Library scan of the Ticknor and Fields edition)
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From the chapter "Conclusion" of Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). This is the text of the first edition.