Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDisobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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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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