Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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