A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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I love to be alone.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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