A written word is the choicest of relics.
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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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