To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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 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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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I love to be alone.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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