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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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A 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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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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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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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