A written word is the choicest of relics.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Things do not change; we change.
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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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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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