What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOnly 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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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