Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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 went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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 mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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