What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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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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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