The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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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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Things do not change; we change.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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