To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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