What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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I love to be alone.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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 make myself rich by making my wants few.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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