It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAURenew thyself completely each day.
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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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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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