I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTo be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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