It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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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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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Things do not change; we change.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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