What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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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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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Things do not change; we change.
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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