I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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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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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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