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HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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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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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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