If you want to be happy, be!
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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