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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTo be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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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I love to be alone.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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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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