What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA 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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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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