Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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