Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSay what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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