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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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 you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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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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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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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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