Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI 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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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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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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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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Things do not change; we change.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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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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