I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNot 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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Things do not change; we change.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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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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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 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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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