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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAll men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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If you want to be happy, be!
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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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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I love to be alone.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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 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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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