What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhen I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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