It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAURead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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When 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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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