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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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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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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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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