You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo 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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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All good things are wild and free.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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