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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Minimalism Myself One Liner Rich
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Fame Love Money One Liner Truth
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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Companion Hear Man Music Place
Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Funny Humour Island Land Opportunity Stand
Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Fool Humour Law Mind One Liner Rules
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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Things do not change; we change.
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Change Deep Life One Liner Reality
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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Hire Love Man Money
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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Beautiful Beholder Depth Earth Expressive Eyes Lake Landscape Nature
Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Necessary Problem Reality Simplicity Trouble
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Essential FAction Freedom Liberty Life Live Travel Wood
All good things are wild and free.
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Freedom Goodness Nature One Liner Wild
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Beware Clothes Enterprise Wear
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Confirm Desperation Lead Live Men Quiet Resignation
A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Book Choice One Liner Relics Writing
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Character Dreamss Inspirational Life One Liner Stone
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Distance Earth Friendship
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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