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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUMen are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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