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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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